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I'm not going to say Canadians don't support using racial slurs, because a great many obviously do. But:1. 57% in the poll becomes 75% in the headline; support is taken

So many preachers of permanent, radical technological change are unable to imagine substantive social change, because they know no history. Thus they are unable to see technology itself other than

Lots of BS to unpack here, but I'll start with: IF you think that *the modern West* is the finest society ever created, AND you think *the modern West* is

Some thoughts on "interdisciplinary" uses of history.1. History is not just a source of raw data. Even simple historical sources require interpretation. They often need quite careful contextualization. Ducking this

At Concordia the Women's/Gender Studies program has 8 faculty members, out of 1089 full-time faculty and librarians and 1330 part-time faculty. There's no postcolonial program; 5 courses across the university

I destroyed the kids' activity room & replaced their Ikea desks with seminar-room tables. I could fit 1 1/2I replaced their drawings (which weren't winning any prizes) with the University's

Culture-war rhetoric often assumes a fundamental opposition (even, inevitably a war) between something called STEM and something called The Humanities. I'm hardly the first to point out that this is

It’s fascinating though hardly surprising to watch purportedly oppositional or heterodox intellectual posturing give way to ever more naked hatred of complex and critical thought. But the real point is

A lot of colleges and universities with breadth requirements for undergraduates have "Science for non-scientists" courses.This morning I found myself wondering why there are no "History for non-historians" courses. This

I have two main thoughts on “not judging the past by the stands of the present”.https://twitter.com/anandwrites/status/1275448581214728193 First: statues and monuments are not “the past”. They are not “history”. They are

When I see "racism" treated as simply and solely a matter of bad words, I think of a point Barbara Fields makes in her and Karen Fields's book Racecraft that

Legitimately scared that this "routine visit to the doctor" is how they're finally going to put the chip in me. I am a cat They've been adding things to my